Word: tab
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...directed a number of documentaries and theatrical productions. In addition, the film makers decided to brave four months' shooting on location in India, an adventure that involved wrangling 300 containers of equipment past vigilant customs officers, recruiting local beggars to act as extras and running up a tab of $7 million...
...People get $15 tickets for double parking [in front of the store] and then bring them back to us," Levine says, adding that his store picks up the tab for three or four customer traffic citations a week...
Boston University, confronted with a 13% surplus of 496 new students, put up most of the spillover for two weeks at the Sheraton Boston. Eventually more conventional quarters were scrounged up, and B.U. swallowed a $200,000 tab. The University of California, Santa Cruz, counted some 200 freshmen above the normal entering class of 1,340. The school handled the crush in part with a freshly bulldozed trailer park, where some 30 students are currently making do with their mobile digs. The rest were shoehorned in everywhere from the gym, where ten to 20 students checked in every night...
Cuomo, Jackson, Ferraro and Mondale, the Four Horsemen who ride under the banner of the New Deal, promising enough things to enough people to get enough votes to win. They promise the nation a future containing all the better things of life, and will send the tab for that future to the welfare state...
...garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live sex at El Cid, and female impersonators at Finocchio...